- DEMO8(TENZING)
- NORAD 48951
- 2021-059CA
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Libya
Orbit ends over Algeria
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Tanker-001 Tenzing go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for Tanker-001 Tenzing, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is Tanker-001 Tenzing?
At 6:20:03 PM UTC Tanker-001 Tenzing was over the Southern Ocean (71.4° S, 8.8° W), 413 km up, moving at 7.66 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Tanker-001 Tenzing?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 30, 2021.
Can I see Tanker-001 Tenzing?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tanker-001 Tenzing, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Astro Digital
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Astro Digital
- Launched
- Mass
- 35 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 71.4° S, 8.8° W
- Altitude
- 413 km
- Speed
- 7.66 km/s (27,583 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:08 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 92.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.61
- This orbit
- 379 to 387 km
- In shadow
- 27 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,370 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:19 AM, 18 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:19 AM, 18 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tanker-001 Tenzing, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tanker-001 Tenzing has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
Tanker-001 Tenzing shares its launch, 2021-059, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| STARLINK-3005 | Communications satellite |
| TYVAK-0173 | Satellite |
| MANDRAKE 2 ABLE | Communications satellite |
| MANDRAKE 2 BAKER | Communications satellite |
| YAM-3 | Satellite |
| HAWK-3B | Satellite |
| HAWK-3C | Satellite |
| HAWK-3A | Satellite |
| SHERPA-FX2/TAGSAT-2 | Satellite |
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:19 AM, 18 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "DEMO8(TENZING)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-059CA",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:19:34.674528",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.60540868,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00061582,
"INCLINATION": 97.6877,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 156.9203,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 160.4721,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 199.6772,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 48951,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 29969,
"BSTAR": 0.00042313848,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00034894,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}